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Birds: The Messengers of the Gods. Western European Applied Art of the 16th to 19th Centuries. St. Petersburg, 2013.

Catalogues of Temporary Exhibitions

ISBN 978-5-93572-518-1
Birds: The Messengers of the Gods. Western European Applied Art of the 16th to 19th Centuries. Exhibition catalogue. The State Hermitage Museum. St. Petersburg: The State Hermitage Publishers, 2013. – 240 pp. Ills.

This is the exhibition catalogue of works of Western European applied art, united by their subject, i.e. ancient scenes with birds and gods of Olympus. This material shows how the choice and interpretation of mythological scenes changed depending on the ideals of an epoch.